Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The tool and accompanying guide provide resources for prioritizing cadres of health workers providing frontline nutrition services, identify relevant competencies, determine if the pre-service training curricula address these competencies, and update curricula.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
In an area of Guatemala with high rates of anemia and iron deficiency, a multiple micronutrient-fortified beverage improved infants’ socioemotional development. There were no intervention effects on other measures of child development, hemoglobin, or ferritin.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Babies’ exposure to language affects their brain development. Playing word games, letting the baby take the lead in conversations, and engaging in contingent interactions when a caregiver responds promptly and meaningfully to what the baby is doing, are particularly important.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This report summarizes the achievements of the Nurturing Care Framework, including the development of new global measures for population-level assessments of early child development (ECD), an extensive research repository, and ECD profiles for 197 countries. Priorities include using new measures and locally generated evidence and data to inform policy, planning, budgeting, and financing, stimulating initiatives at subnational levels and in communities, strengthening systems capacity, and producing local evidence about interventions that improve ECD outcomes and reduce inequities.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This collection of papers examines program quality, including interventions for children in crisis and conflict settings, parenting to impact child development and reduce violence and maternal depression, integrating early childhood interventions with other services, delivering services remotely, scaling programs, and partnering with government agencies. Several papers discuss the Reach Up program.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Early childhood development (ECD) experts discuss challenges and opportunities working on integrated, inclusive nurturing care-based programs. The USAID Children in Adversity team leader discusses the government's approach to supporting ECD. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This news segment showcases work that promotes responsive care and early learning, emphasizes efforts to promote good nutrition and feeding practices for mothers and children, and highlights the significance of the critical period from pregnancy through a child’s second birthday to ensure optimal nutrition and growth.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This workshop provides guidance, recommendations, and ideas for individuals charged with training others on nutrition-sensitive agriculture. This is the seventh of seven sessions included in the Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Training Resource Package. Unlike the first six sessions, this is a full workshop that can be conducted over 2 to 3 days after any of the preceding sessions, as needed. The training materials include a session guide, slides, and several handouts.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Stunting and wasting was particularly widespread in Sudan, Egypt, Libya, and Morocco while underweight was highest in Sudan.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Authors call for conducting more research on long-term garden care and sustainability, identifying critical inputs and supports, integrating contextual factors, and developing testable linkages between direct and indirect program effects and pathways.